// Accountants > Estimates are that over 90% of accountancy jobs can be computerised //
No I know - Sage software can do a lot of the book keeping. I didnt like it much altho I have been examined in it. In the course and I chose a deliberately hands-on course rather than a weak version of finance and maths for finance. Almost all linear approximations [ sorry a bit technical there] - it is stressed than we have virtually done all the book keeping and the rest of the courses in future years is more interesting ( budgeting forecasting and so on)
so accountancy is changing
oh and we get a lot of 'effix' on which we are also examined - "I must tell the truth to the tax man. I must obey revenue law and other laws in England". "I must not cross the accountancy regulator" Rather obvious stuff to someone whos been in the NHS for thirty y
effix is due to the Arthur Andersen case - they were acquitted on appeal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen_LLP_v._United_States
where it was put forward that if A A had not been economical with the truth then Enron would not have gone bust and there would have been no 2008 recession
bit of a long shot to me
it has already occurred to me that if you shot all the accountants in the UK not an awful lot would happen but there are still tax forms to fill out every year